Bidder Pays $34,900 for ‘Mein Kampf’

A British auction house says a signed copy of Hitler’s infamous manifesto “Mein Kampf” was sold for $34,900. The auction house, Mullock’s Auctioneers in Ludlow, in western England, said the book was sold to an anonymous telephone bidder Thursday. The auction house described the item as a prepublication copy given by Hitler to a fellow inmate in 1925 during his four-year prison term in Bavaria in southern Germany. “Mein Kampf” outlines Hitler’s anti-Semitic ideology. It was written in 1924, and was banned from publication in Germany after World War II.